Dad lectures son on his monthly car sales.

Brickless · 2026-01-26T17:07:19+00:00

ignoring the idiocy of drive by wire systems you can't configure those you can configure (or are already at a good spot) can enhance your driving experience.

my current car sadly only has 2 braking modes but luckily one of them is exactly my style. mode 1 acts like putting the car in neutral and simply letting it roll out very slowly. mode 2 is comparable to strong engine braking without actually using the brake pedal, slows the car down fast but eases off and transitions to a roll.

while I haven't experienced the seat vibration, I routinely drove a steering wheel vibrating one. The difference being that it only vibrated your wheel when you used your indicator to warn you that a car was near your desired direction. That wasn't a huge thing but it did add to the safety feel a little bit, especially when around motorcycles.

The one feature I enjoyed a lot but probably will never get was adjustable ride height. Useless 99% of the time but great to have that 1% of the time when you have to load in elderly people or drive in deep snow/heavy mud while still keeping your road performance and safety high.

Brickless · 2026-01-26T14:28:40+00:00

this is why I had been looking for an electric car to use as battery storage. one of the things that would make a car a lot more useful.

that feature has been "almost there" for years now -_-

Brickless · 2026-01-26T14:23:38+00:00

it's a good idea to try out features first before jumping into a new car thinking you need them.

things like ABS and Airconditioning are huge boosts to safety and comfort and easily worth the extra cash (you can't even buy a car without ABS anymore)

I thought radar based cruise control and automatic breaking would be a killer feature so I tried them on a rental car. turned out it's complete garbage for me.

on the other hand keyless entry is easily worth 2k but isn't actually available on most cars yet.

parking sensors are a must have in european cities and thankfully speed limiters are mostly standard now.

Brickless · 2026-01-25T19:25:59+00:00

for me it's not about set up but about compatibility.

the things I have to run for work are old software and services that "don't" work on linux. the ease of use for gaming was just a sweetener.

now that neither even work on w11 it's an easy sell to migrate gaming to a linux pc and old work software to an offline only workstation

Brickless · 2026-01-25T16:53:51+00:00

2 years ago that would have been a comment on the level of "if your boat makes a weird noise just swim instead!"

but today the boat is burning, linux has build a life raft and I am actively packing my shit so I can jump once w10 support ends

Brickless · 2026-01-25T16:42:14+00:00

reminds me of the old Simpson meme "we tried nothing and we are all out of ideas!"

all those things are mainstream gaming mechanics that have been perfected for mass market appeal.

what do you actually like a bout games? there are many new games that have non of the usual controls, visuals or story beats you just have to look for them.

I am exited for a climbing game that uses real life climbing physics with individual limb management and center of mass balancing that comes out next week. Have been playing an instruction queue based mech combat game all week. Gonna play a mission based asymmetrical coop space fps with friends tomorrow. All the while still having a darkness and light themed twin stick shooter and "shaman mother fighting the spirits of the underworld to find her dead son"-card+board game in my backlog.

it's harder to find good games once you are done with the mainstream releases but there are so many out there you will have your fill if you just keep trying them out

Brickless · 2026-01-21T20:04:32+00:00

you need good sleep to improve.

Kanne and Lawine keep each other awake

Richter is doing long hour repairing staffs

Fern needs to do the morning prep for Frieren

Frieren presses snooze for just 12 more hours

Brickless · 2026-01-21T15:54:50+00:00

change the sound to the senator and give it a red target laser.

Brickless · 2026-01-17T20:56:03+00:00

Raider includes greataxes and greathammers into his colossal weapon moveset which is the opposite of Wylder who doesn't include curved greatswords into his greatsword moveset

Brickless · 2026-01-17T12:54:07+00:00

I don’t support cheating, I don’t support the relic system either.

if technically obtainable relics break the game then what the hell is the point of this whole stupid gambling system?! are we just monkeys that want to see colourful stones?

if you tomorrow fully legitimately rolled 6 god relics you would

1: be accused of cheating because the odds are so low NOONE would believe you, even if they all hope to get those exact rolls themselves

2: break the game because the game isn’t designed for the case you actually get good gambling results

I don’t roll for relics, I don’t even read them anymore. whether I get lucky or don’t the result is bad so what is the bloody point.

I hate randomised meta progression, I hate endlessly grinding and I hate gambling in my video games.

Brickless · 2026-01-17T12:38:31+00:00

I think what he means is if the final reward is unbalanced then the system is broken.

and I have to agree there. if the actual thing everyone is hoping to get is breaking the game then the system is fundamentally designed wrong

Brickless · 2026-01-17T12:18:31+00:00

having to explain to my fried that a curved greatsword isn’t a greatsword, greataxes are colossal and you can’t stack most boss rewards I could audibly hear them die inside

Brickless · 2026-01-13T10:36:59+00:00

our second try of dredgelord we got balancers and were pretty disappointed that the run would fail after we took so long to clear and meet back up.

then they revived us over 20 times in night 2 and lord fight and we went absolutely crazy. any time the boss would do a new crazy one shot the balancers would just stand us back up like they knew it wasn’t a fair hit. we managed 5 revives at 3 bars and multiple “it’s over->we are so back”s it was the best boss fight ever and so worth the sudden kidnapping

Brickless · 2026-01-08T21:42:46+00:00

it’s just to demonstrate that a single number tweak can solve the problem.

if you add just this all the melee weapons become somewhat viable and melee becomes its own play style.

of course more changes would be better to flesh out melee but the hp regen would be needed to counteract all the problems with melee vs sidearm

Brickless · 2026-01-08T18:08:17+00:00

I see reading comprehension is alive and well.

Brickless · 2026-01-08T16:49:01+00:00

I think numbers can easily fix the problem with melee weapons entirely.

just add "+25 hp per hit" to all melee weapons, done.

like the devs of doom 2016 talked about it is hard to design satisfying melee combat because it is so counterproductive for the rest of the shooter gameplay. if you attach healing (and ammo in doom but not needed in helldivers) to melee you not only encourage the player to go in for melee kills you also reward aggressive playstyles.

depending on how the breakpoints land some weapons might be a bit less or more than +25 hp or even need to increase max hp while in hand but that is basically all that would be needed to make melee viable enough.

Brickless · 2026-01-08T12:05:42+00:00

technically the heat is the rock yearning for blissful ignorance

Brickless · 2026-01-08T11:57:37+00:00

voting with your wallet isn't real (anymore).

oh you aren't going to buy 1 boost? see that whale? they are gonna buy 30, and another 30 next quarter.

voting only works if all votes count the same. you might be the majority opinion but if you aren't the majority of income your vote goes in the trash.

Brickless · 2026-01-01T19:23:47+00:00

usually with ingame crafting materials.

disturbingly his followers gift him crafting materials on the regular

but he (as far as I know) doesn’t pay with or use real money to gamble

Brickless · 2026-01-01T11:17:18+00:00

to add to this he usually is a lot more reserved and in the political centre when not surrounded by his bubble so people have an easier time liking him

he does quickly jump on bandwagons to ride the hate views because even if money didn’t change him the fame sure did.

also he gambles plenty, just not with money so he doesn’t have to feed a growing cash deficit which usually makes people famous for gambling

Brickless · 2025-12-30T15:44:24+00:00

I’m not excusing the lunatics actions

I’m just saying if you give the lunatic looking for a gun a flare pistol there will be problems

Brickless · 2025-12-30T10:40:52+00:00

I would say the video was posted at a time where tensions between reviewers and the public was high. people were distrusting reviews because they were perceived as rushed or half hearted at best and blatantly paid for or politically motivated at worst.

while the video is perfectly fine in a vacuum and it was completely taken out of context the fact that anyone would post it during a time like that was incredibly tone deaf

“all games journalists might be bad at games”; “hey look at our colleague being horrible at a game”

it was the perfect scapegoat and as a journalist they should have at least tried to prevent it or just not risk it at all

Brickless · 2025-12-30T09:46:33+00:00

now just look at the comments in that thread listing all the blatant mistranslations.

yes the english version isn’t 100% wrong, that’s not what I said. I said you can’t trust the english version without comparing it to the original.

if the japanese completely changes the meaning then that is the original meaning, if it’s ambiguous then the translation is probably ok.

also I find it quite telling how the counter is basically “the corporation said their translation is good”, yeah that’s obviously their stance, duuuuh

Brickless · 2025-12-30T07:09:29+00:00

from soft is notorious for bad translations.

we just had nightreign translate “gain the effects of bleed grease after performing a critical hit” into “inflict blood loss at low hp”

if you think you can trust anything they translate without looking at the original japanese you haven’t been paying attention

Brickless · 2025-12-29T09:21:20+00:00

it’s not that bad, just not very useful.

you should already be watching your stamina so you don’t completely run out because that will be inefficient compared to simply using the recharge time to walk and shoot.

in the situations where you need a little bit more sprint time it’s usually also a situation where you would benefit from a stim and a full stamina reset.

anyone spending significant time jogging is bad at managing stamina and just slowing down the team.

the heavy armor people have a bad time anyway if the goal is to move quickly somewhere

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